PureHealth Transitional Care at Texas Health Presbyterian

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest scores in this area with a grade of A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This facility clearly fared well enough in these metrics to receive an encouraging grade in this category.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home received an excellent nursing rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that area, topping off one of our finer report cards. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.